Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Brackyle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brackyle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56543, -8.30904
- SMR number
- LI024-312----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying, improved rough pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 370m N of the Reask River, which also forms a townland boundary with Cross. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. A moated site (LI024-167----) and a barrow (LI024-168----) lie 65m to SW and 90m to SE, respectively. Identified as a rectilinear-shaped cropmark, which is open to SW, by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 155: AP 4/3676). Monument is not visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 155.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.